Blog Heap o'Transport Links 17 May 2011

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Blog-Heap links regarding transportation and related infrastructure,
also energy, because it takes energy to transport,
and virtuality, because telepresence saves on transpresence.

Tue 2011 May 17

Transport Incident

Unruly passenger tried to kill himself, feds say
cbsnews.com Tue 2011 May 17, 7:06pm

Thirty-four-year-old Reynel Alcaide of Burbank, Illinois, faces federal charges, including interfering with a flight crew, for the incident on May 8. Alcaide was on a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago when he allegedly tried to open the jet door. The flight was diverted to St. Louis.

Blazing jet makes emergency landing
msnbc.msn.com Tue 2011 May 17, 6:55am

SINGAPORE — Terrified passengers aboard a blazing jetliner prayed together before the plane made an emergency landing on Monday... landed back in Singapore "without incident" just before 2 a.m. It said the crew shut down the engine after receiving a "stall warning."..

Transport Tragedy

Western Ky. school bus crash kills 6-year-old boy
fox41.com Tue 2011 May 17, 6:45am

LOUISVILLE, Ky - One child is dead and more than 20 hurt after a school bus crash... bus swerved to miss a deer in the road, then overturned in a ditch... the 29 children aboard were returning from a field trip to Paducah...

Transport Safety

Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
propublica.org Tue 2011 May 17, 6:47am

some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer... question why the TSA won't make the scanners available for independent testing by outside scientists....

Transport Disaster

Black boxes yield Airbus crash data
independent.co.uk Tue 2011 May 17, 6:45am

France's BEA air crash investigation agency said yesterday it had managed to transfer all the information stored in the devices hauled from the seabed two weeks ago, almost two years after the Airbus A330 vanished.

Fundamentals
(Just 1 so far)
Civilization and Transport Liberty

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@SJPFISH, Twitter — 2020-Sep-1

Wait one second! Those aren’t Dolphins 🐬 following my boat! Twitter video, 0:40

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Vince Gerasole | CBS Chicago — 2018-Nov-18

CHICAGO Hancock Tower …A broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to malfunction… they had careened from the 95th floor down to the 11th floor.… It took nearly three hours to rescue six people… The rescue crew had to hammer out a concrete wall in the garage area of the 11th floor.… I've been on that elevator, and contemplated this very scenario. Even knowing all the modern safeties, which properly kicked in here, it seems, kinda terrifying. Wheeee! Gulp!

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Shamil Zhumatov | OANN — 2018-Oct-11

…two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when their rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely without harm… made what NASA called a steep ballistic descent to Earth… Moscow immediately suspended all manned space launches… Footage from inside the Soyuz had shown the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing. Ovchinin, the Russian cosmonaut, can be heard saying: “That was a quick flight.”…

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Investors Business Daily — 2018-Oct-9

If you care about global warming, you must like wind power, right? But what if wind power itself ends up contributing to a warmer climate? That appears to be the case, according to a new study.…

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Robinson Meyer, the Atlantic — 2018-Jul-13

…Interstate 95, the country’s most used highway, will finally run as one continuous road between Miami and Maine by the late summer. The interstate’s infamous “gap” on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border will be closed, turning I-95 into an unbroken river of concrete more than 1,900 miles long. In so doing, it will also mark a larger milestone, say transportation officials—the completion of the original United States interstate system.…

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James Delingpole, Breitbart — 2018-Jul-1

…Green recycling policy is killing the oceans with plastic pollution… Well, it's really that what is supposed to be being recycled just isn't.

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President Donald J. Trump, Twitter — 2018-Jun-30

Just spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia and explained to him that, because of the turmoil & disfunction in Iran and Venezuela, I am asking that Saudi Arabia increase oil production, maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels, to make up the difference...Prices to high! He has agreed! But, but, typo! Prices TOO high. What an idiot.

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